Two Russian Nationalities: Kostomarov’s re-creation of Ukrainian history

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Mykola Kostomarov (1817-1885) was a leading folklorist who attempted to connect folklore study with nationalist pursuits. Using folklore, he established the elements of Ukrainian national identity and reconstructed the past of Ukrainian people.
Based on the outcome of his folklore study to identify national character, Kostomarov expressed his libertarian, Panslavic and religious ideals in Knyhy bytiia ukrains’koho narodu and declared political rights for Ukrainians based on the democratic-federalistprinciple. Moreover, in “Dve russkiia narodnosti,” on the basis of folkloristic and historical evidence, Kostomarov insisted that differing geographical and historical circumstances between Russia and Ukraine had resulted in different national characteristics for the two peoples.
Kostomarov’s endeavors to find national character based on folk materials were made to perform his two main goals: the creation of a Ukrainian identity and the re-creation of Ukrainian history. At that time, in fact, Ukraine did not exist as a state and Ukrainians were not regarded as a separate nation.
Moreover, many aspects of Ukrainian life were in danger of being absorbed into Russian culture. Therefore, intellectuals such as Kostomarov felt it was necessary to turn to folklore, which was regarded as the only source, which reflected the lives of the Ukrainian common people, in an attempt to create a Ukrainian national identity as a shield against the absorption of Ukraine into Russia.

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